Senior Director, Business Area Finance

Role Overview

• Acts as the senior-most financial leader for the Business Area, partnering with the Business Area President, Vice Presidents, and enterprise leadership to shape strategy, evaluate tradeoffs, and drive long-term value creation.
• Influences strategic and operational decisions through disciplined financial insight, scenario analysis, and enterprise perspective.
• Leads proactive, enterprise-minded financial stewardship across the business area, embedding value creation, commercial rigor, and disciplined capital and O&M decision-making into all major initiatives.
• Serves as a trusted executive advisor, fostering credibility and influence through deep business understanding, sound judgment, and transparent communication.
• Directs, governs, and approves multi-year financial plans, annual budgets, rolling forecasts, and long-range outlooks, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy and regulatory expectations.
• Establishes and continuously improves enterprise grade financial planning processes, including dynamic resource allocation across O&M and Capital Expenditures, to optimize financial performance and risk management.
• Holds accountability for forecast integrity, transparency, and executive level readiness, enabling informed decision making by senior leadership and governing bodies.
• Provides executive level leadership for regulatory strategy, cost of service support, and expert testimony, ensuring defensible, compliant, and strategically aligned regulatory outcomes.
• Leads enterprise scale financial performance management, integrating operational, financial, and risk insights to support executive and Board level decision making.
• Oversees comprehensive performance reporting, variance analysis, and trend identification, translating complex financial data into clear, actionable executive insights.
• Communicates financial results, risks, opportunities, and business drivers with clarity and authority to Executive Leadership, Financial Performance leadership, and enterprise governance forums, including Operations Council and OPCo Presidents.
• Serves as the senior fiduciary authority for the Business Area, ensuring strong financial governance, internal controls, and compliance with corporate policy, regulatory requirements, and ethical standards.
• Provides executive oversight of financial operations, financial statement impacts, SOX compliance, and regulatory adherence, proactively identifying and mitigating financial and operational risk.
• Leads and develops a high performing finance leadership team, setting clear expectations, modeling enterprise leadership behaviors, and building organizational capability.
• Champions a culture of continuous improvement, talent development, and succession planning aligned with enterprise objectives.
• Ensures rigorous performance management, coaching, and accountability processes that reinforce results, leadership effectiveness, and professional growth.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or related business field required
• MBA, CPA, or equivalent advanced credential strongly preferred
• Minimum of 10 years progressive financial leadership experience, including significant experience at the senior leadership or executive level
• Minimum of 7–10 years of people leadership experience, including leading managers and complex organizations
• Demonstrated expert-level knowledge of GAAP, regulated utility finance, Sarbanes Oxley compliance, enterprise financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and executive reporting
• Proven ability to design and govern enterprise scale financial policies, controls, and business processes
• Demonstrated enterprise business acumen with the ability to influence, advise, and challenge senior executives through clear, concise, and credible communication.

Benefits

• Annual Incentive Program
• Long Term Incentive
• Medical/Pharmacy Plan
• Dental
• Vision
• Life Insurance
• Dependent Care Reimbursement Account
• Health Care Reimbursement Account
• Health Savings Account (HSA) (if enrolled in eligible health plan)
• Limited-Purpose FSA (if enrolled in eligible health plan and HSA)
• Transportation Reimbursement Account
• Short-term disability (STD)
• Long-term disability (LTD)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Fitness Center Reimbursement (if enrolled in eligible health plan)
• Tuition reimbursement
• Transit programs
• Employee recognition program
• Pension
• 401(k) plan
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Holidays
• Volunteer Paid Time Off (VPTO)
• Parental Leave